Beaded keychains and wristlets are a bulk-bag business: silicone and acrylic beads by the hundred, keyring-and-tassel sets by the fifty, strung into batches that sell at a price nobody negotiates. The pennies per piece are easy to wave off — and a season of markets is thousands of pieces. MadeKeeper counts what the bulk bags hide.
The app is live. Free during the pilot. Founding rate $19/mo, locked for life.
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Say you string a batch of 25 wristlet keychains:
At $10 each you keep $8.77 a piece before fees — so the school-fundraiser ask of '$6 each for 30' still clears $143.10, and now you can say yes or no from a number instead of a gut feeling.
If you describe stones and metals in listings, MadeKeeper keeps your purchase records per material — what a supplier called it and what you paid — so your descriptions have paperwork behind them.
Materials and true cost per piece, products (in bulk or one-of-a-kind), sales that drain stock, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, mileage, expenses, and the year-end tax packet — all in the app today. Etsy and Square sync, your own storefront, a booth card reader, and shipping labels are building, shaped with founding makers. Nothing above describes a feature that doesn't exist without saying so. See the full live-vs-building list →
Log the bag at its price and count; MadeKeeper holds the per-bead cost from then on. Every design's recipe pulls beads and hardware at true cost, however scrambled the trays get.
Cost one piece honestly, and a 30-piece order is multiplication — materials against the quoted price, margin visible before you commit the weekend of stringing.
Every new bag logs as its own material, so the trend shape that costs triple shows up in the pieces that use it. When the trend fades, the leftover bag is still on the books, waiting for the clearance batch.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.